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Lady Sings the Blues Again: The Story Behind The United States vs. Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues Again: The Story Behind The United States vs. Billie Holiday How Lee Daniels new movie (starring Andra Day) retells the singer s story for the BLM era - and brings Billie back to life David Browne, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director Lee Daniels was in the midst of wrapping up his latest movie The United States vs. Billie Holiday, which tells the story of the late, troubled jazz singer and how “Strange Fruit,” the anti-lynching protest song she introduced to the world, brought her both triumph and troubles when he noticed an unsettling parallel. He suddenly got a firsthand look at just how timely his new film project was. “We were in the middle of editing and that [George Floyd’s death] happened,” he recalls. “People were sending me [protest] videos of people singing ‘Strange Fruit’ in the middle of the street. It was cr ....
Sammy Nestico, an omnipresence in big band arranging and composing, best known for a close association with the Count Basie Orchestra, died of natural ....
These Are the Best Albums of All Time by Black Artists By Alexander Raeburn, Stacker News AND Nicole Caldwell, Stacker News On 12/31/20 at 9:00 AM EST There would be no American music as we know it without the contributions of Black artists. Since the first African music was brought over by people in bondage as early as the 15th century, Black singers and musicians have had a hand in every aspect of American music s evolution. From country-western, the foundation of which was banjo music from Africa, to rock n roll, first played by a Black woman on electric guitar in 1938, each genre of American music has a Black artist (or many) who helped create it. ....